The Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'. Although this rather cute title sounds more like the agreement which you and your friend have about sending cards to each other on Valentine's Day, it was actually a military treaty, which bound its signatories to come to the aid of the others, should any one of them be the victim of foreign aggression.

Nominally the Warsaw Pact was a response to a similar treaty made by the Western Allies in 1949 (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO) as well as the re-militarization of West Germany in 1954, both of which posed a potential threat to the Eastern countries. Although it was stressed by all that the Warsaw Treaty was based on total equality of each nation and mutual non-interference in one another's internal affairs, the Pact quickly became a powerful political tool for the Soviet Union to hold sway over its allies and harness the powers of their combined military. When Hungary tried to extricate themselves from the agreement in 1956, Soviet forces moved to crush the uprising; and, in 1968, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia (with support from five other Pact members), after the Czech government began to exhibit 'Imperialistic' tendencies.

Following the diminishing power of the USSR in the 1980s and the eventual fall of Communism the treaty became redundant. The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved in Prague in 1991, after successive governments withdrew their support of the treaty.

* This article on the Warsaw Pact is meant to be an informative introduction to Warsaw's history for travellers, and is not meant to be used for academic research. Please do not use it for any academic papers, but instead refer to published academic works and textbooks. *

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And the main reas0n for warSaw pact made six yearS after NATO is that in 1955 america made west germany as a member of NATO so sovait replied immediately by making Warsaw pact!
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A very replete and didactic, aggregate of information pertaining to the significance of treaties. The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance is indefinitely a material source of prospective international law students. The Warsaw Pact military alliance was, without incertitude, dominated by their desire to prevent, at all costs, any further recurrence of a large scale invasion of its territories from the western powers (NATO) and the Paris Pacts of 1954. The members of these states were emotionalized by the previous empires in their attempt for conquest. Very brilliant!

When will people stop rewriting history in order to promote their own agendas. If you check the facts you will find that the formation of NATO and the rearming of West Germany was done in response to the growing threat of the Soviet Union. The creation of the Warsaw Pact was only a formality.

hey yam! can you please stop calling the Warsaw pact retarded? and you spelled it wrong by the way. this is a sensitive topic for european people and it can be offensive by calling it this. it is a helpful site and you need to SHUT UP! leave your comments to yourself and leave the site if you don't like it. just please don't leave your negativity with all of us.
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Technically, since NATO is still going strong and Warsaw has been disbanded,NATO won. But it was basically a stalemate throughout the war. Many people think that USA didn't win, but our goal was to contain communism, and we did that everywhere except Vietnam.

Yes it was a very wise move by USSR...But ignored the USA policy towards USSR..which in fact was involved in splitting of USSR.Still being dominant in world politics..USA`s next move will be splitting China into pieces. So in India dealt with..Thanks and Good writing..Bye

Thank you for breaking this down in simple where professors talk about but didn't define the terms. I, definitely, will not use it for my exam, but it's nice to understand a topic when people mention it. Thanks, Sheridan

alot of you are confused what warsaw pact was. it waz the alliance of those who were communists, and nato is those who are democracy, even today nato exist and i believe since nato still exist today so does warsaw pact, its obvious that russia is not happy about loseing to us during the cold war. russia is not your friend. they support any communist country such as china and north korea. those are the countries we have to worry about, atleast thats what i think.

warsaw pact assumed immense in the history of europe.it solve the problems of european states wich were bleeding wounds of batic states.it transfom war into friendship.and assumed trade among anguish states of europe.

thank you so much very informal and wonderful for my project thats counts as more than half of my grade!!! this was a great amount of info with out that much reading, amazing i know i couldnt do this!!